insurance company. go long. >> pelley: that deadly meningitis outbreak tied to tainted steroid injections just keep spreading. today new jersey became the tenth state to report the infection. 119 people have become ill and 11 have died. tennessee has seen the worst of it and manuel bojorquez is at a hospital in nashville. >> reporter: ron barbe drove himself to st. thomas hospital in nashville this afternoon. he received two injections of a steroid for lower back pain last month. >> symptoms started this morning. slight stiff neck and a headache so i went to see my family doctor and he sent me up here. >> reporter: a spinal tap will determine whether barbe has men united states. i can't imagine what that feeling might be like for you. >> i can't explain it, really. it's been a week of stress and this drive up here was pretty stressful. >> reporter: and for thousands of others who received steroid injections, the stress won't go away soon. this afternoon, health officials warned patients will need to wat